Qermez Dere
Coordinates: 36 ° 31 ′ 0 ″ N , 42 ° 50 ′ 0 ″ E
Qermez Dere is a small early Neolithic settlement on the northwestern outskirts of Tal Afar in what is now Iraq . It was researched by archaeologists in the late 1980s as part of a rescue excavation after the archaeological findings had been damaged by road works.
The settlement of Qermez Dere measured about 100 × 60 m and formed a cultural debris hill less than 2 m high. Two functional areas can be distinguished within the settlement. In the central and eastern parts of the village there was mainly red clay, hardly any architectural remains, but millstones. In the other areas, however, there was much more cultural debris.
The team managed to completely uncover a building. This was a sunken one-room house, the corners of which were rounded.
literature
- Trevor Watkins, Alison Betts, et al. a .: Qermez Dere, Tell Afar. Interim report . 1-3. 1987-1995.
- Trevor Watkins, D. Baird, Alison Betts: Qermez Dere and the Early Aceramic Neolithic of N. Iraq. In: Paléorient 15, 1989, pp. 19–24 full text
- Trevor Watkins: The Origins of House and Home? In: World Archeology 21, 1990, pp. 336-347.